PBS Journalist Gwen Ifill Has Died of Cancer at 61
*PBS journalist Gwen Ifill has died following a battle with cancer, according to POLITICO. She was 61. Best known for moderating PBS’s “Washington Week in Review” and being a senior correspondent on PBS NewsHour, Ifill was in hospice care in Washington. She also took a leave of absence from the public broadcaster in May to get […]
L.Michelle Salvant’s Stories of Faith 360/Post Election: New President, Same God
Well, The Election is over, we have a new President(USA), and God is not caught off guard by any of it. That has been my response since the election results came in, and as I prepare to embrace a very different next 4 years of leadership in this country. New President, Same God is my […]
Ellis Hall: Blind Master Musician ‘Loves Funking It Up’ (EUR Exclusive)
*For singer, musician and recording artist, Ellis Hall, it doesn’t matter whether he’s performing in front of 10,000 people on stage, or sitting on his Southern California porch serenading a few neighbors, he always brings his pulsating brand of pure soul, R&B and funk songs and music to the forefront. EURweb’s Lee Bailey found this […]
Author/ Entrepreneur Harold Lefall, Jr. Reveals How to Keep Moving Forward and Reach the Maximum
*Oakland, CA — Many people today seek personal motivators to help them succeed in their business and personal endeavors. Few realize the power to change resides within. This is the central message of Harold Leffall Jr., well known author, entrepreneur, business coach and speaker, who is on a mission to remind people, “You are enough.” […]
Black Architect Humiliated By Bank After Depositing Paycheck
*Architect Trish Cole Doolin took to Facebook recently to explain how she was interrogated and humiliated about her employment by a KeyBank staffer after she deposited her check. Apparently, employee Thor Loberg couldn’t wrap his head around the fact that an educated black women was pulling in the type of money that only white males […]
Omarosa Manigault Received Death Threats for Supporting Trump (and Her Friends Dumped Her)
*Omarosa Manigault, who was the Donald Trump campaign’s director of African-American outreach, said she caught “a lot of flak” and received death threats from black folks for supporting the president-elect. “I was called every single racial slur in the book that you could direct towards an African-American by African-Americans,” she told ABC News’ “20/20.” The […]
Rosie Perez, Pink Join ‘Hail Mary’ Effort to Legally Deny Trump Presidency
*Dozens of celebrities including Lady Gaga, Rosie Perez, Amanda Seyfried, Marg Helgenberger and Pink have added their names to a long-shot movement underway to legally deny Donald Trump the presidency. More than 2.7 million Americans have signed a Change.org petition calling on Republican electors to switch their votes and make Hillary Clinton president, according to Deadline.com. […]
Keri Hilson Opens Up About Split with Orlando Magic’s Serge Ibaka
*Keri Hilson gets candid about her split from Serge Ibaka in a new interview with RollingOut.com. While promoting her role in the new film “Almost Christmas,” the R&B singer was asked about the attraction of dating an NBA player. “It wasn’t ‘enthralling’ for me to date an athlete. It was on my list of ‘not […]
Apollo Nida Gets Engaged in Prison
*Just days after Phaedra Parks announced that her divorce from Apollo Nida was final, her ex is ready to exchange marital vows with another woman. According to TMZ, Apollo has gotten engaged to a woman who lives near the New Jersey prison where he is serving eight years for bank fraud and identify theft. She […]
Dave Chappelle Gives ‘Saturday Night Live’ its Highest Ratings of the Season (Clips)
*“Saturday Night Live” saw its best ratings of the 2016 season thanks to guest host Dave Chappelle, musical guest A Tribe Called Quest and the election of Donald Trump four days earlier. According to TV Newser, the show averaged a 6.2 rating, 16 share in live plus same day household ratings making it the most-watched […]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Eloquently Says ‘STFU’ to White Man Who Attempts to Define Racism
*Oh god. Talk about alternate universes, a claim that Hillary Clinton made when speaking of how Donald Trump views the world we live in, here’s ANOTHER great example. I came upon a YouTube video where BBC NewsNight spoke to African novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and American Spectator Editor-in-chief, Emmett Tyrrell, a Trump supporter. Needless to say one of the […]
Penn Alumni Call On Donald Trump to Denounce Racism After Black Freshmen Targeted
*A new Change.org petition calls on Donald Trump to condemn the racist incidents that have taken place across the country in his name since the election. It was launched over the weekend in the wake of black students being targeted at his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania. TV writer, author and UPenn alum Lindsey […]
Wanda Sykes Flips Off Charity Crowd after Trump Jokes Draw Boos (Watch)
*Wanda Sykes was booed by a charity crowd in Boston after her standup act turned toward the election of Donald Trump. Sykes was the fifth of eight comics to perform at the event at Saturday’s Comics Come Home benefit show at the TD Garden, which served as the 22nd annual fund-raiser for the Cam Neely Foundation for […]
The Mo’Kelly Show – Politics, Protests and the President Elect (LISTEN)
*Radio and television personality Mo’Kelly discussed where the blame lies in the presidential election loss of Hillary Clinton. Also he weighed in on the protests and their lack of impact in impacting the Electoral College. Donald Trump’s 60 Minutes interview was also covered as well as the weird news of the week. The Mo’Kelly Show […]
Jackie Robinson’s Son (David) Hopes to Connect African Farming with American Consumerism
*Nearly 70 years ago, for the first time in American history, Jackie Robinson, an African American, took the field as a major league baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers. And 70 years later, Robinson’s legacy is alive and well. Today, Jackie’s youngest son, David, now 64 years old, has been a Tanzanian coffee farmer for […]
